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Feasibility Study of a Group Intervention for Youth Wellbeing

NCT05030909 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 26

Last updated 2026-05-12

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Summary

Psychological distress, anxiety and depression are common in adolescence, and even more so following traumatic events. On Friday 15 March 2019, two mosques in Ōtautahi, Christchurch were targeted in an act of terrorism, resulting in 71 people being injured and 51 people being shot dead. This has had widespread repercussions in the Muslim and wider community in Christchurch and New Zealand. Uptake of a response pathway set up by community and district health board groups has been low despite reports of high levels of distress in the adolescent population.

The proposed study offers a transdiagnostic group treatment approach (ie. Targeting a broad range of emotional difficulties) for teenagers from a community impacted by the March 15th shootings, incorporating well-evidenced transdiagnostic treatment principles into an Islamic Psychology framework to address the local population's need. We will determine the feasibility and effectiveness of this approach in increasing wellbeing in teenagers. We will run gender-specific treatment groups (8 participants in each group) recruited from the community, with one individual session (for information and consent) and 6 group sessions. We will measure symptoms of emotional difficulties, trauma symptoms and functioning at baseline, end of treatment and at 3 months follow-up. In addition, we will check in weekly with participants to monitor for any increased distress. We will also measure parental distress to explore whether an intervention for adolescents has an impact on parental wellbeing.

Conditions

  • Psychological Distress
  • Trauma, Psychological
  • Emotional Problem

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

transdiagnostic group treatment

The individual and group sessions will integrate core principles from Motivational interviewing (provide information, address barriers), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (psychoeducation regarding emotions, enhancing emotional awareness, cognitive restructuring, behavioural experiments, relaxation) , Acceptance Commitment Therapy (mindfulness, grounding, emotional and body awareness, enhancing cognitive flexibility), and aspects of Islamic psychology.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Canterbury Medical Research Foundation

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University of Otago

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Caroline Bell, MD · University of Otago, Christchurch

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Years
Max Age
19 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-04-10
Primary Completion
2025-09-07
Completion
2025-09-07

Countries

  • New Zealand

Study Locations

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